ksteamtrayicon 1.0.5.post4

Updates the Steam tray icon to match the current Plasma color scheme.

KSteamTrayIcon

KSteamTrayIcon is a small Python background application for KDE Plasma 6 that keeps the Steam tray icon in sync with the desktop color scheme.

How does it work?

By default, Steam displays a tray icon that looks fine on dark panels, but is hard to see on light Plasma themes.

The application listens for changes on the current desktop color scheme and then acts as follows:

• if it detects that the current theme has a light color scheme, it overrides the default Steam tray icon by placing a dark-colored variant in $HOME/.local/share/icons/steam_tray_mono.png.
• if it detects that the current theme has a dark color scheme, it removes the dark-colored file, which prompts Steam to change its tray icon back to the default light-colored one.

Requirements

• KDE Plasma 6
• Python 3
• dbus-next (python library)
• pipx*

Note: pipx is only required when installing KSteamTrayIcon from PyPI. Installing it from the AUR (on Arch Linux and its derivatives) does not require pipx (check the Install section below for more details).

Install

First, check the contents of setup.sh and if everything seems ok for you, simply run the following command:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/marcotuliomatos/ksteamtrayicon/main/setup.sh | bash -s -- install

The installation script checks whether all required dependencies are available on your system and guides you through the setup process.

On all distributions except Arch Linux and its derivatives, setup.sh install installs the KSteamTrayIcon PyPI package using pipx.

On Arch Linux and Arch-based distributions, setup.sh install defaults to installing the KSteamTrayIcon AUR package, which does not require pipx. If, for whatever reason, you would prefer to install the package from PyPI instead, use setup.sh install-from-pypi:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/marcotuliomatos/ksteamtrayicon/main/setup.sh | bash -s -- install-from-pypi

Uninstall

Check the contents of setup.sh and if everything seems ok for you, simply run the following command:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/marcotuliomatos/ksteamtrayicon/main/setup.sh | bash -s -- uninstall

License

MIT